10 of the best places to get a buttermilk biscuit in the Triangle

Ever wonder how a James Beard Award-winning chef can elevate a Southern classic? Find the answer in Ashley Christensen’s take on a fried chicken biscuit with pickled green tomato, dijon mustard and honey at Beasley’s Chicken + Honey in Raleigh. Juli Leonardjleonard@newsobserver.com

Ever wonder how a James Beard Award-winning chef can elevate a Southern classic? Find the answer in Ashley Christensen’s take on a fried chicken biscuit with pickled green tomato, dijon mustard and honey at Beasley’s Chicken + Honey in Raleigh. Juli Leonardjleonard@newsobserver.com

We know about Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen and all the classic fast-food restaurant biscuits, too.

Here, we search for bliss on a biscuit from places you may not have considered — and those you don't need to get in a drive-thru.

Beasley’s Chicken + Honey

237 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh

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Bliss on a biscuit: Ever wonder how a James Beard Award-winning chef can elevate a Southern classic? Find the answer in Ashley Christensen’s take on a fried chicken biscuit with pickled green tomato, dijon mustard and honey.

Grub

Bliss on a biscuit: True to diner tradition, Grub serves three meals a day. And true to its own mission, the breakfast menu (served until 3 p.m.) offers a varied mix of traditional and contemporary options. Keep it old school if you like a breakfast biscuit — the Best Bird, say, with fried chicken, maple pepper bacon, bread and butter pickles, and honey-butter drizzle on a buttermilk biscuit. Or the Country Road: ham, fried egg, melted sharp cheddar cheese, and creole mustard on a sweet potato biscuit.

The Best Bird Biscuit is a fried chicken breast with maple pepper bacon topped with Mama's Bred & Butter pickles and a honey butter drizzle served on a buttermilk biscuit at GRUB in Durham.

Rise Biscuits Donuts

Bliss on a biscuit: Check the specials board for the likes of The Cubano and Three Mushroom Gravy. Or design your own biscuit sandwich, choosing from a list that covers the spectrum from country ham to fried eggplant “bacon.”

State Farmers’ Market Restaurant

Bliss on a biscuit: They’re rightly proud of their buttermilk biscuits here – did you catch the name of the website? – which come in more than a dozen variations. Try the streak o’ lean biscuit for a real taste of country.

Light and buttery, their tops spangled with crunchy bits of pork crackling, the cracklin' biscuits are so addictive they might as well just drop a couple of letters and call them crack biscuits.

Whiskey Kitchen

Bliss on a biscuit: Beware the cracklin’ biscuits. Light and buttery, their tops spangled with crunchy bits of pork crackling, they’re so addictive they might as well just drop a couple of letters and call them crack biscuits.

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